茱莉亞史恩

Making dumplings is one of the common activities for students who study abroad.

I did it many times with friends and missionaries when I was in the US.

Usually I made the fillings myself and bought the wrappers from a Chinese grocery store.

Now I have a pasta machine and I can make the wrappers myself.

The dough for dumpling wrappers is same as for noodles.

Simply mix all purpose flour wth 40% water and a pinch of salt.

Use the pasta machine to roll out the dough.

There are 4 settings on my pasta machine, ranging from 4 to 1.

Setting 4 is the thickest and setting 1 the thinnest.

Setting 1 is for making wontons and setting 2 can get the thickness nicely for making dumplings.

Roll out the dough several times to get the sheet of dough.

With a dumpling maker or a cookie cutter, cut out round and uniform circles to be used as wrappers.

Place a wrapper in the dumpling maker and add some fillings.

Use a finger to dip some water and run it around the edge of the wrapper.

Fold the dumpling maker and press firmly to seal the dumpling tightly.

Then a dumpling is perfectly made.

Now Johnny gave a demonstration for us.

Put a wrapper in the dumpling maker and add some fillings.

Fold it and press firmly.

Open the dumpling maker.

A dumpling is made.

Isn’t it easy?

I added some pureed vegetable in a dough and some pureed pumpkin in another.

They colored the dumplings.

There are several ways to cook dumplings.

Put them in boiling water is the most common way.

Yummy yummy.